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The 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 update is available as a free download from -the Thursby web site (the speed of finder copies has been greatly -enhanced, and there are bug-fixes included). -</para> - -<para> -Alternatives - There are two free implementations of AppleTalk for -several kinds of UNIX machnes, and several more commercial ones. -These products allow you to run file services and print services -natively to Macintosh users, with no additional support required on -the Macintosh. The two free omplementations are -<ulink url="http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/">Netatalk</ulink>, and -<ulink url="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html">CAP</ulink>. -What Samba offers MS -Windows users, these packages offer to Macs. For more info on these -packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems) see -<ulink url="http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html">http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html</ulink> -</para> - -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>OS2 Client</title> - - <sect2> - <title>How can I configure OS/2 Warp Connect or - OS/2 Warp 4 as a client for Samba?</title> - - <para>A more complete answer to this question can be - found on <ulink url="http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/samba/warp.html"> - http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/samba/warp.html</ulink>.</para> - - <para>Basically, you need three components:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>The File and Print Client ('IBM Peer') - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>TCP/IP ('Internet support') - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>The "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" driver ('TCPBEUI') - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>Installing the first two together with the base operating - system on a blank system is explained in the Warp manual. If Warp - has already been installed, but you now want to install the - networking support, use the "Selective Install for Networking" - object in the "System Setup" folder.</para> - - <para>Adding the "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" driver is not described - in the manual and just barely in the online documentation. Start - MPTS.EXE, click on OK, click on "Configure LAPS" and click - on "IBM OS/2 NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP" in 'Protocols'. This line - is then moved to 'Current Configuration'. Select that line, - click on "Change number" and increase it from 0 to 1. Save this - configuration.</para> - - <para>If the Samba server(s) is not on your local subnet, you - can optionally add IP names and addresses of these servers - to the "Names List", or specify a WINS server ('NetBIOS - Nameserver' in IBM and RFC terminology). For Warp Connect you - may need to download an update for 'IBM Peer' to bring it on - the same level as Warp 4. See the webpage mentioned above.</para> - </sect2> - - <sect2> - <title>How can I configure OS/2 Warp 3 (not Connect), - OS/2 1.2, 1.3 or 2.x for Samba?</title> - - <para>You can use the free Microsoft LAN Manager 2.2c Client - for OS/2 from - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/LANMAN.OS2/"> - ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/BusSys/Clients/LANMAN.OS2/</ulink>. - See <ulink url="http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/lanman.html"> - http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/lanman.html</ulink> for - more information on how to install and use this client. In - a nutshell, edit the file \OS2VER in the root directory of - the OS/2 boot partition and add the lines:</para> - - <para><programlisting> - 20=setup.exe - 20=netwksta.sys - 20=netvdd.sys - </programlisting></para> - - <para>before you install the client. Also, don't use the - included NE2000 driver because it is buggy. Try the NE2000 - or NS2000 driver from - <ulink url="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/"> - ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/</ulink> instead. - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2> - <title>Are there any other issues when OS/2 (any version) - is used as a client?</title> - - <para>When you do a NET VIEW or use the "File and Print - Client Resource Browser", no Samba servers show up. This can - be fixed by a patch from <ulink - url="http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/samba/fix.html"> - http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw/samba/fix.html</ulink>. - The patch will be included in a later version of Samba. It also - fixes a couple of other problems, such as preserving long - filenames when objects are dragged from the Workplace Shell - to the Samba server. </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2> - <title>How do I get printer driver download working - for OS/2 clients?</title> - - <para>First, create a share called [PRINTDRV] that is - world-readable. Copy your OS/2 driver files there. Note - that the .EA_ files must still be separate, so you will need - to use the original install files, and not copy an installed - driver from an OS/2 system.</para> - - <para>Install the NT driver first for that printer. Then, - add to your smb.conf a parameter, os2 driver map = - <replaceable>filename</replaceable>". Then, in the file - specified by <replaceable>filename</replaceable>, map the - name of the NT driver name to the OS/2 driver name as - follows:</para> - - <para><command>nt driver name = os2 "driver - name"."device name"</command>, e.g.: - HP LaserJet 5L = LASERJET.HP LaserJet 5L</para> - - <para>You can have multiple drivers mapped in this file.</para> - - <para>If you only specify the OS/2 driver name, and not the - device name, the first attempt to download the driver will - actually download the files, but the OS/2 client will tell - you the driver is not available. On the second attempt, it - will work. This is fixed simply by adding the device name - to the mapping, after which it will work on the first attempt. - </para> - </sect2> -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>Windows for Workgroups</title> - -<sect2> -<title>Use latest TCP/IP stack from Microsoft</title> - -<para>Use the latest TCP/IP stack from microsoft if you use Windows -for workgroups. -</para> - -<para>The early TCP/IP stacks had lots of bugs.</para> - -<para> -Microsoft has released an incremental upgrade to their TCP/IP 32-Bit -VxD drivers. The latest release can be found on their ftp site at -ftp.microsoft.com, located in /peropsys/windows/public/tcpip/wfwt32.exe. -There is an update.txt file there that describes the problems that were -fixed. New files include WINSOCK.DLL, TELNET.EXE, WSOCK.386, VNBT.386, -WSTCP.386, TRACERT.EXE, NETSTAT.EXE, and NBTSTAT.EXE. -</para> - -</sect2> - -<sect2> -<title>Delete .pwl files after password change</title> - -<para> -WfWg does a lousy job with passwords. I find that if I change my -password on either the unix box or the PC the safest thing to do is to -delete the .pwl files in the windows directory. The PC will complain about not finding the files, but will soon get over it, allowing you to enter the new password. -</para> - -<para> -If you don't do this you may find that WfWg remembers and uses the old -password, even if you told it a new one. -</para> - -<para> -Often WfWg will totally ignore a password you give it in a dialog box. -</para> - -</sect2> - -<sect2> -<title>Configure WfW password handling</title> - -<para> -There is a program call admincfg.exe -on the last disk (disk 8) of the WFW 3.11 disk set. To install it -type EXPAND A:\ADMINCFG.EX_ C:\WINDOWS\ADMINCFG.EXE Then add an icon -for it via the "Progam Manager" "New" Menu. This program allows you -to control how WFW handles passwords. ie disable Password Caching etc -for use with <command>security = user</command> -</para> - -</sect2> - -<sect2> -<title>Case handling of passwords</title> - -<para>Windows for Workgroups uppercases the password before sending it to the server. Unix passwords can be case-sensitive though. Check the <ulink url="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</ulink> information on <command>password level</command> to specify what characters samba should try to uppercase when checking.</para> - -</sect2> - -<sect2> -<title>Use TCP/IP as default protocol</title> - -<para>To support print queue reporting you may find -that you have to use TCP/IP as the default protocol under -WfWg. For some reason if you leave Netbeui as the default -it may break the print queue reporting on some systems. -It is presumably a WfWg bug.</para> - -</sect2> - -<sect2> -<title>Speed improvement</title> - -<para> -Note that some people have found that setting DefaultRcvWindow in -the [MSTCP] section of the SYSTEM.INI file under WfWg to 3072 gives a -big improvement. I don't know why. -</para> - -<para> -My own experience wth DefaultRcvWindow is that I get much better -performance with a large value (16384 or larger). Other people have -reported that anything over 3072 slows things down enourmously. One -person even reported a speed drop of a factor of 30 when he went from -3072 to 8192. I don't know why. -</para> -</sect2> -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>Windows '95/'98</title> - -<para> -When using Windows 95 OEM SR2 the following updates are recommended where Samba -is being used. Please NOTE that the above change will affect you once these -updates have been installed. -</para> - -<para> -There are more updates than the ones mentioned here. You are referred to the -Microsoft Web site for all currently available updates to your specific version -of Windows 95. -</para> - -<orderedlist> -<listitem><para>Kernel Update: KRNLUPD.EXE</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Ping Fix: PINGUPD.EXE</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>RPC Update: RPCRTUPD.EXE</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>TCP/IP Update: VIPUPD.EXE</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Redirector Update: VRDRUPD.EXE</para></listitem> -</orderedlist> - -<para> -Also, if using MS OutLook it is desirable to install the OLEUPD.EXE fix. This -fix may stop your machine from hanging for an extended period when exiting -OutLook and you may also notice a significant speedup when accessing network -neighborhood services. -</para> - -<sect2> -<title>Speed improvement</title> - -<para> -Configure the win95 TCPIP registry settings to give better -performance. I use a program called MTUSPEED.exe which I got off the -net. There are various other utilities of this type freely available. -</para> - -</sect2> - -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</title> - -<para> -There are several annoyances with Windows 2000 SP2. One of which -only appears when using a Samba server to host user profiles -to Windows 2000 SP2 clients in a Windows domain. This assumes -that Samba is a member of the domain, but the problem will -likely occur if it is not. -</para> - -<para> -In order to server profiles successfully to Windows 2000 SP2 -clients (when not operating as a PDC), Samba must have -<command>nt acl support = no</command> -added to the file share which houses the roaming profiles. -If this is not done, then the Windows 2000 SP2 client will -complain about not being able to access the profile (Access -Denied) and create multiple copies of it on disk (DOMAIN.user.001, -DOMAIN.user.002, etc...). See the -<ulink url="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</ulink> man page -for more details on this option. Also note that the -<command>nt acl support</command> parameter was formally a global parameter in -releases prior to Samba 2.2.2. -</para> - -<para> -The following is a minimal profile share: -</para> - -<para><programlisting> - [profile] - path = /export/profile - create mask = 0600 - directory mask = 0700 - nt acl support = no - read only = no -</programlisting></para> - -<para> -The reason for this bug is that the Win2k SP2 client copies -the security descriptor for the profile which contains -the Samba server's SID, and not the domain SID. The client -compares the SID for SAMBA\user and realizes it is -different that the one assigned to DOMAIN\user. Hence the reason -for the "access denied" message. -</para> - -<para> -By disabling the <command>nt acl support</command> parameter, Samba will send -the Win2k client a response to the QuerySecurityDescriptor -trans2 call which causes the client to set a default ACL -for the profile. This default ACL includes -</para> - -<para><command>DOMAIN\user "Full Control"</command></para> - -<note><para>This bug does not occur when using winbind to -create accounts on the Samba host for Domain users.</para></note> - -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>Windows NT 3.1</title> - -<para>If you have problems communicating across routers with Windows -NT 3.1 workstations, read <ulink url="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q103765">this Microsoft Knowledge Base article</ulink>. - -</para> - -</sect1> - -</chapter> |